The Queen indulges her love of horse racing with official visit to top yard in Somerset
THE Queen will today indulge her love of horse racing as she visits a top yard in Somerset.
During the visit, the Queen is expected to meet champion trainer Paul Nicholls, who won the Queen Mother Champion Chase with Call Equiname in 1999. And she even owns horses herself, including Pall Mall that won the classic 2000 Guineas in 1958. More recently, her racehorse Estimate won the Doncaster Cup in 2014.
The Queen will also hear from representatives from the University of Bath working on research projects on equestrian sport spinal injuries and racehorse welfare. She will then visit King's Bruton, a co-educational school founded in 1519. Finally, she will visit Hauser & Wirth Somerset, a gallery and multi-purpose arts centre located at Durslade Farm.The Queen has been around horses from her early childhood, with her first riding lesson taking place when she was just four at the Buckingham Palace Mews.
Avon and Somerset Police's Chief Constable Andy Marsh and Police and Crime Commissioner Sue Mountstevens will be among a number of guests who will meet the Queen.
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